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What’s with the sale of vehicle licences?

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on What’s with the sale of vehicle licences?

Dear Editor, Please permit me some space to ask what I believe to be questions that have boggled the minds of motorists in Guyana. My question is directed to the officials at the Guyana Revenue...

Sexual abuse in schools is rampant

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sexual abuse in schools is rampant

Dear Editor, There seems to be no end to the incidents of sexual offences, albeit in the form of carnal knowledge, as occasioned by the recent shocking allegation of such conduct brought against a...

UG spearheads workshop to promote Health Research Initiative

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on UG spearheads workshop to promote Health Research Initiative

– Promises better access to updated medical information Designed to offer free or low cost access to major health information including medicine, nursing and related health and social sciences...

Parika man still missing, relatives cling to hope

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Parika man still missing, relatives cling to hope

Almost four days after 34-year-old Kingsley Williams called ‘Ado’ of Parika, East Bank Essequibo, went missing in the Mazaruni River, following a boat mishap, his relatives are still clinging to...

8-year-old heart patient benefits from the benevolence of BCB & National cricketers

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 8-year-old heart patient benefits from the benevolence of BCB & National cricketers

The Berbice Cricket Board and several national cricketers from the Ancient County last weekend contributed $221,440 to eight-year-old Deepa Sahadeo of West Coast, Berbice. Sahadeo is suffering from...

Did President Jagdeo breach Pradoville contract?

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Did President Jagdeo breach Pradoville contract?

Dear Editor, President Bharrat Jagdeo has finally confirmed that he has acquired land in Pradoville 2. He described the price as $5 million per acre without stating how many acres he bought. The word...

‘Six-months mining notice’ again leaves miners uneasy

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Six-months mining notice’ again leaves miners uneasy

– PM warns corruption charges need addressing Government has signaled intentions to continue looking into a controversial six-months notice for the mining industry, much to the chagrin of...

A Country is born

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A Country is born

It is final. On July 9th later this year, Southern Sudan will officially become the 193rd independent country of the world. To say that the results of the referendum held last month to decide whether...

Interdicted Presidential Guard further remanded

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Interdicted Presidential Guard further remanded

Yesterday, Magistrate Priya Beharry for a second time refused to grant bail to interdicted presidential guard Malvin Taylor, who is accused of attempting to kill his wife Sharon Taylor and her sister...

Mark Benschop and I go on trial today: What for?

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mark Benschop and I go on trial today: What for?

Some people may read this newspaper after 9 a.m. by which time Mark Benschop and I would have already appeared in court to face two charges of obstructing traffic. Guilty verdicts only carry a small...

Man charged for causing death by dangerous driving

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man charged for causing death by dangerous driving

Walter Denny of Costello Housing Scheme, La Penitence, appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer to the charge of causing death...

Guyanese nabbed at Dublin airport with cocaine

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese nabbed at Dublin airport with cocaine

Ireland-A Guyanese national is in custody following the seizure of cocaine valued at €220,000 at Dublin airport. Customs officers stopped the 48-year-old at the airport Monday night and found...

This unnecessary delay is a travesty

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on This unnecessary delay is a travesty

Dear Editor, In February 2010, I applied to the Police Divisional Commander at Cove and John then to the Commissioner of Police seeking permission to acquire a SIMPLE AIR GUN and made reference to...

Silence is sometimes a defence

Feb 08, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on Silence is sometimes a defence

There is an interesting thing about some people. When they are caught out in deception they then seek to suggest that they were misunderstood or that their remarks were deliberately distorted....

Office of the President now admits to laptop purchases

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Office of the President now admits to laptop purchases

… Laptop flip-flop 2 The Office of the President, in its continued attempt to accuse Kaieteur News of distortion regarding laptop purchases, has once again flip-flopped on information that it...

FOI Legislation… PM fails to honour agreement to Parliament

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on FOI Legislation… PM fails to honour agreement to Parliament

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has failed to maintain a declaration to the Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran as well as to Opposition Leader, Robert Corbin, and Leader of the Alliance For...

Kaieteur News is winning calypso

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News is winning calypso

Last Wednesday 10-year-old Daniel Fanfare, of the Coomacka Primary School went on a public stage for the first time, to sing calypso. But Daniel said he was not nervous–he was confident. He had...

Tender to be advertised for the closing of Le Repentir dump site

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Tender to be advertised for the closing of Le Repentir dump site

The final closing of the Le Repentir dumpsite will take longer than expected as the work will now have to be tendered out. This is according to Government Engineer, Walter Willis, who met with...

Mechanic killed in smash-up

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic killed in smash-up

…he worked on dead drag racer’s vehicle Less than 24 hours later yet another road fatality has been recorded bringing the figure to an alarming 17 deaths resulting from 17 accidents this year....

Guyanese feared dead as two drown in T&T mishap

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese feared dead as two drown in T&T mishap

AN EARLY morning lime aboard a pirogue off Indian Bay in Chaguaramas ended in tragedy early Sunday morning when the pirogue overturned and two persons drowned while another is missing and feared...

Dem boys seh… Me nah wuk at de big Affice

Feb 08, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Me nah wuk at de big Affice

Children does lie when dem know that dem gun get licks. Big people different. Dem does lie when dem know that jail door a wait fuh dem. Some of dem does get confronted by de truth and dem does...

Drag racing victims drowned

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Drag racing victims drowned

– alcohol consumption detected during post mortem Post mortems performed yesterday on drag-racing champion, Raymond Ally, and Jermaine Frank confirmed that the friends died from drowning after...

Anna Regina vendors protest 14% hike in stall rentals

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Anna Regina vendors protest 14% hike in stall rentals

Irate vendors are questioning the implementation of the decision, taken by councillors of the Anna Regina Town Council, to increase stall rentals by 14 per cent. Vendors who said that the rate is...

Magistrate finds Prosecutor lying to court

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate finds Prosecutor lying to court

The question of the Guyana Police Force really having the interest of serving justice to society at large is repeatedly asked. Those who were fortunate in the Chief Magistrate’s Court, last week,...

Bandits snatch $2.6M after trailing victim from bank

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits snatch $2.6M after trailing victim from bank

Despite the many arrangements put in place to protect bank customers, bandits continue to wreak havoc by tracking them and robbing them of millions of dollars, using the most ingenuous ways. The...

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Iyer’s 102 crushes West Indies

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Shreyas Iyer produced a breathtaking century on his T20I captaincy debut as India dismantled the West Indies by eight wickets in the opening match of their five-game series at...

The end of the Lula era

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections in Brazil have turned out to be more than electing a government. The first round, concluded on Sunday, has effectively signalled the end of an era and the changing of an age in the region. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at age eighty, finished second to Flávio...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

MV Barima tragedy -would have handled differently

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Things could have been different. I would have made allowance. But when it was the same stink and dutty story with the MV Barima tragedy, there was only one road left. In the late hours of that fateful Saturday night of July, those early hours of Sunday morning, the little...

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